♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Jamiroquai (3) Pogo (3) Above & Beyond (2) Anderson .Paak (2) Cassius (2). #myweekcounted 181 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Still time to vote 🗳️

They’re gonna double deluxe our ass

a solid look at the current state of UI in macOS and how something has clearly gone wrong…

No newsletter this weekend because *festivities*…. Hanafuda Report will be back in inboxes on January 4th. 💌

An additional part of this is that the audience that will pay for journalism instead of listening to a kind of stupid person plagiarize an article on TikTok is almost exclusively this website and three subreddits.

This is the last issue of the year! Thank you so much for reading, and your lovely replies throughout the year. 💌 I’ll be back in your inbox on January 4th. ✌️

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Electric Light Orchestra (6) Anderson .Paak (2) Daft Punk (2) Flume (2) Rogue (2). #myweekcounted 86 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

This is the last issue of the year! Thank you so much for reading, and your lovely replies throughout the year. 💌 I’ll be back in your inbox on January 4th. ✌️

Man, this ain't nothing new, but I really don't like the change to all macOS apps having round-rec icons. Makes them far less easier to scan in the dock.

Tell me what games you’ve enjoyed this year! ⤵️

The Steam Deck no longer starts at $399. It's $549 now. Technically that's because Valve has discontinued the LCD version. Realistically, it changes every conversation about handheld price from here on out. www.theverge.com/news/848595/...

Tell me what games you’ve enjoyed this year! ⤵️

Nintendo's big holiday sale is underway. Here are some good wallet-friendly Switch picks.

What is the video game that oozes childhood memories for you? Club Penguin, Neopets, Habbo Hotel, Angry Birds, Runescape, Friv, World of Warcraft, Skylanders. Something else?

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Vol. 3, issue 51 of Johto Times is now available! It's a pretty special issue this week, as we publish our interview with Gail Tilden, former employee of Nintendo of America, who managed the launch of Pokémon outside of Asia. You can check it out here: johtotimes.com/issues/2025-...

Dear Santa, Can you put Viewtiful Joe on NSO please. 🥺 From Chris, Age 38

Hello! I am writing a little thing on Christmas (or wintery festive) gaming memories - e.g. getting particular consoles or games as presents or just memories of playing games. Do you have any that mean something to you? My DMs are open if you want to share?! Xx

Ludocene v1.2 is out in time to find your perfect Christmas gift. 🧭 Improved flow 🕹️Game pages 🔤Hot-keys 💌Monthly Recommendations BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret. www.ludocene.com

What have been your favourite Switch and Switch 2 games this year?

This past Sunday marked 2 years since I said I was going independent and launching Game File I didn't publish regularly until the new year, but that nerve-wracking day in late 2023 was crucial Thank you to all who've supported my reporting and subscribed to Game File www.gamefile.news/p/here-we-go

email, but its turn-based combat?! you have my attention.

This week's digest features links to @dringo.bsky.social, @ianhigton.bsky.social, @robinbombus.bsky.social, @whilhorst.bsky.social, @jackgyarwood.bsky.social, @mads.haus, @edwinet.bsky.social and others! ❤️

🌸 Issue 462 of Hanafuda Report is out now: hanafuda.report/issues/462/ #Nintendo

Please spend more time clicking on (and sharing!) links to personal sites, your friend's Bandcamp, that specialist news site, and that forum you used to read daily than posting about how you miss the old internet. The old internet's still here! You just stopped visiting!

A couple of days late to this detail, but from IGN: Rockstar tried to NDA a group of MPs who were meeting them about claims of illegal firings for union busting, incredible, that's the most Rockstar thing to do, well done. Hilarious move. www.ign.com/articles/gta...

Stay in the know on all things Nintendo with Hanafuda Report - the Nintendo newsletter. Join thousands of others in getting a no-noise email roundup every Sunday: hanafuda.report

Alex Horne is doing a 24-hour non-stop song for charity. Just looked back at what happened overnight, glad I missed the 3am Mr Blobby nightmare fuel.

Geoff Keighley 🤝 David Cameron Makin Bacon

Doug, you can’t just say that.

You know how protective Nintendo are of their IP? Well, I kinda just assumed Disney would always be the same. Gotta wonder if Steamboat Willie entering the public domain was the moment that the thinking on all this changed?

what a WILD decision from Disney 😐

breakfast anyone?

Wario World has been added to Nintendo Switch Online.

Xbox wankers down 69%.

Huge day for fans of N64 platformers about little guys with floating limbs.

My latest Nintendo digest features links to @mackeza.bsky.social, @alucarti.bsky.social, @jasonschreier.bsky.social, @drewgmackie.bsky.social, @pjoreilly.bsky.social and others!

Howl's moving castle at Christmas (suggested by @happimess73.bsky.social)

I knew things had turned to shit at @videogamercom.bsky.social, but it seems they're now using AI writers to pump out casino stuff and pretending they're real people (none of these names bring up any related social posts online)

🌸 Issue 461 of Hanafuda Report is out now: hanafuda.report/issues/461/ #Nintendo

disney ass slot machine

NEW: “We’ve hit a snag” - The untold saga behind a missing Star Wars video game DLC that spawned a lawsuit One of the most detailed stories I’ve ever run. An inside look at the year-long struggle to make KOTOR II’s cut content available in the game’s Switch port. www.gamefile.news/p/kotor-ii-r...

I wrote about the weird resellers too market that’s popped up around the Pokemon TCG: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

I need you all to see this…

JOHN CENA

amazing

achievements in apple music 🙃

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice